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=====Economic clusters=====
"The “Community Framework for State Aid for Research and Development
and Innovation” defines innovation clusters as “groupings of independent
undertakings — innovative start-ups, small, medium and large undertakings as well
as research organisations — operating in a particular sector and region and
designed to stimulate innovative activity by promoting intensive interactions,
sharing of facilities and exchange of knowledge and expertise and by contributing
effectively to technology transfer, networking and information dissemination
among the undertakings in the cluster.

In more general terms, clusters can be defined as a group of firms, related
economic actors, and institutions that are located near each other and have
reached a sufficient scale to develop specialised expertise, services, resources,
suppliers and skills. A common element of most cluster definitions is the aspect
of a concentration of one or more sectors within a given region as well as the
emphasis on networking and cooperation between companies and institutions".

Source: [[http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/files/clusters-working-document-sec-2008-2635_en.pdf|European Commission Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry: The Concept of clusters and cluster policies and their role for competitiveness and innovation]]

Projects: [[Innocite]]

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